Photo Scenery Support Forum

I notice that sometimes P3D runways are either at a slightly different angle to the photo scenery depiction or even completely translated. Gemini LLM suggested a global approach to addressing this could be to substitute transparent runway textures so that you don't see them when they render in sim and the underlying photo scenery shows through. Despite much experimenting I haven't been able to get this to work and the alternative of adjusting individual airports using ADE doesn't appeal. My question is has anybody succeeded in applying this approach and if so would you shed light on how you achieved it.

Is there a way to have the standard map pop up in XP 11 that shows sectional etc and have it show ortho instead with the plane icon flying above it and show the names of everything too like the map does..?

Hello, I am only able to use Google and Bing as providers for UK ortho source, Arc, Here and USA2 no longer seem to work? Would any of you have any other suggestions please? Thanks Phil

Anybody know of any covering Alaska? Tried Google but didn't find any. Thx!

For those who are into flying in Mexico, a new developer, VOR MEXICO STUDIOS, has released full coverage of (1) the Baja Peninsula (N&S), (2) the Valle de Mexico (covering the Mexico City area) and (3) the entire Yucatan Peninsula (Yucatan, Quintana Roo and Campeche). Excellent pricing! See https://vormexicostudios.com/ for more information. Works great with P3D 5.x.

Hello, I wonder if I can put out a call for advice please? I have the latest version of Ortho4 P3d installed and I've changed the config to point to resample.exe. However, each time I compile the scenery, including to tick build for ESP and batch build, everything goes through it's motions but I'm getting no add on scenery folder produced in the orthophotos folder. Here's a little extract from my config file.... terrain_casts_shadows=True use_decal_on_terrain=False ESP_resample_loc=C:\\P3dOrthoResample\\resample.exe ESP_scenproc_loc=C:\\Users\\fery2\\Desktop\\scenproc_latest_development_release_x64\\scenProc.exe ESP_scenproc_script=default.spc max…

Guys, For the past several months I have been forwarding purchase requests to Paul Chaney for those wishing to buy Horizon Products. As of this morning Paul has re-opened the Horizon web site to enable direct purchase of any and all volumes that you may be missing from your set. The address is: https://www.horizonsimulation.com/shop/ The shop will be open for a limited time only and delivery will be via USB stick, either purchased with software or at reduced cost if you supply your own. Tony

Hello, I am doing it here because no one is online at the forums of NL2000v4.0 but I constantly have that before landing (and just some minutes ago after take off) that the FSX begins glitching at EHEH and surrounding and crashes together with the computer. This is very annoying. How can I fix that?

Hello everyone! I am working on a photo scenery for Africa for 2.5 years now. Sounds megalomaniac? It is. In the meantime, the project is already well progressed, and many people told me to do some advertising for it. First of all the little story behind the project: After I bought the FSL bus, I noticed how bad the performance of the FSL bus was together with ORBX Germany. So I was searching for a solution, and I found it in Photosceneries. Since I didn't want to fly without autogen, I used my experience from my geography studies and programmed Python scripts based on arcpy. These are able to generate high-precision autogen for the sim based on OSM …

I wondered if anyone had a copy of the Shawbury Fields scenery that I think was produced by Horizon that they would be like to sell? Thanks

I’ve just bought a bunch of the Megascenery states on sale as the temptation to see my house in the sim (Wisconsin) was too strong (and it HAS been fun!) But it seems that my local KSBM is now not aligned with the ortho scenery nor are other default fields...I need to extend my default airport’s runway etc. probably in ADE? In the meantime, don’t the default P3Dv4 airports have default grass textures within the airport boundary to disguise the fact they don’t match with the orthos? Does Megascenery Earth or Nuvecta autogen make the landclass/default grass texture disappear? On a related note, I can use ADE..what is the best way to align the defa…

Hello, Is UK 18 still regarded as the best source for UK Ortho, or has anyone found something better, prefferably ZL19 or 20 please? Best Phil

Hello fellow FSX Simmers, I've seen many times on this and other forums that I should un-tick the areas of photo-scenery that I'm not using, as all scenery is loaded and I can improve loading times if I'm only using scenery in the area around which I'm flying. Well, I've just tried a little experiment, loading a flight within the UK, but with all my Megascenery for the US (16 states) enabled and then dis-abled. Guess what? Exactly the same loading time (120secs) for each condition! So, have I been mis-led all these years, or was it not a valid test?

Hi, I have a strange problem after installing Megascenery Earth V3. What happens is that stock FSX airfield buildings repeatedly disappear then re-appear as I get closer to the airfield on a final approach. It seems to be "height" sensitive - so it does not happen if I overfly an uncontrolled airfield at 2,000 ft AGL to check the windsock before going into the pattern for landing. But it will always then happen when descending on final approach as I get closer to the ground. The buildings will even do this when I am merely taxiing around at the airfield. It can also be easily reproduced by going into spot view on the ground at the airfield and raising the camera pers…

Does anybody have any experience with MegasceneryEarth V2 Nevada?

This has been asked before but there was no response. I'm wondering if anyone has this scenery along with Nuvecta Landscapes FL and what are their thoughts. I bought and installed both this morning, but so far I'm unimpressed with what I'm seeing. The photo scenery is not as sharp as the freeware photo scenery packages that I've downloaded. Plus, Nuvecta AG trees & houses are only scattered and not widespread like on my other freeware packages. Thanks! Jose

I know that settings in FSX-SE, like its predecessors at their respective stages of hardware offerings, is a juggling and balancing act, a crusade of compromise. So I have two questions, really... How much extra Oomph of CPU is required to run some of the photo real packages I have seen floating around? Fly Away Simulations has a few of, mostly, the Western U.S. and while they run in the several dozen GBs of file sizes, how much of a drain is that going to be on 'somewhere near the top' of gaming hardware that I have currently? My rig is certainly not bleeding edge technology, but its not a slouch, either, and I am getting (with tweaks to NVI) a solid 30 fps excep…

Blue Sky Scenery is really nice scenery, but I can't download one of the California files. It is the AZ_North3West10_FSX.zip file. When I try to download, it goes to a page where it says it is generating a KEY and then counts down. It never gives me the actual file to save... Anyone have this file?

I have England Scotland & Wales covered thanks to Just Flight VFR Real 3D photoreal, so was wondering about giving Ireland a similar treatment (no autogen, but still, I'm OK with that). Does this scenery come with a detailed mesh? If not, I "only" have Freemesh X (it's still a vast improvement over the default FSX mesh outside of the USA!). Cheers.

Hi, I don't know if this is the right forum, but I've had issues with a particular airport recently. I create and modify sceneries and airports in FSX for personal use based on real satellite imagery and other sources such as FSET, ADE, Photoshop, Sketchup, and sometimes gmax. I recently started using Free Mesh X as well. Recently I discovered Norfolk Island airport (YSNF), which the main problem I'm having is that the airport elevation is 371ft. Default version is 0ft. I changed it in ADE, added a ground polygon to flatten the area I wanted up to 371ft as well but then the whole airport is at 371ft, except the photoreal surrounding area which I dont have contr…

So I was making some photoreal yesterday for the small Channel islands in the UK for default P3D v4.5. When my photoreal was applied I noticed the coastlines in many places were a bit off. In other words, where the photreal ends (at some coasts) the default landclass can be seen leading down to the ocean. These are small islands so it becomes kind of apparent 🙂 I assume a product like Orbx UK can solve this easily with its updated vector data, but since I dont fly in mainland UK at all and I dont need the landclass, updated airports etc that the product provide I figure I am better off with any freeware alternative that basically just fixes the Channel Islands coastl…

I haven't seen this mentioned yet but MegaScenery just announced they will be releasing a 60cm version of MegaScenery - https://www.megasceneryearth.com/preparing-for-the-release-of-the-first-megasceneryearth-4x.html. The first release will be New Mexico and they have a couple of images at the link. Looks pretty awesome but it will be a 210GB download for the State. They expect every US States will take up 7TB's of hard drive space. So, if MSFS2020 is not released on 10 October as I expect and is placed into Alpha/Beta testing for another year, I will be very selective when purchasing States here in the USA. They will have a 1.2cm version too.

New scenery from MegaSceneryEarth in 4K The first glance leaves a good impression. The detail is awesome! + Autogen Nuvecta

Hi everyone, I've been hunting around for patches for the Horizon Gen-X Photosceneries (Vol 1-8) but can only find references to them on Tony Meredith's arm-computers.co.uk website, which appears to no longer be active. Could anyone point me in the direction of where I can find/download the patches from? Many thanks Phil

Hi, I live in 2 countries and fly FSX on 2 computers. I just have copied Utah Nevada and Arizona folders from FSX1 (where I installed the sceneries by installer) and pasted them on FSX2 and noticed that the scenery quality is very poor i.e.completely different from the one shown on FSX1 Question: Do I need to install MSE sceneries only by installer, that means copy and paste does not work? Thanks a lot for your info and best regards Alfred